PDF-(BOOS)-Mosby\'s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 7th Edition

Master the essential skills of today s nursing assistant Mosbys Textbook for Nursing Assistants 9th Edition prepares you to work in longterm care acute care and subacute care settings Known for its comprehensive coverage and an easytoread visual approach this book includes stepbystep instructions for over 100 nursing assistant procedures New to this edition is a practice scenario in each chapter to help you develop problem solving and critical thinking skills as well as Focus on Math boxes that highlight common calculations done on the job Written by wellknown educator Sheila Sorrentino and expert coauthor Leighann Remmert this marketleading text emphasizes the importance of teamwork and communication two elements critical to being an effective nursing assistantComplete coverage includes the knowledge and skills needed by the nursing assistantGuidelines to over 100 procedures are divided into preprocedure procedure and postprocedure sections for easier learningA clear readable writing style is supplemented with more than 1000 fullcolor photographs and illustrationsKey terms and abbreviations are included at the beginning of each chapter with a comprehensive glossary at the back of the book Review questions in each chapter are useful in guiding your study reviewing what you have learned and preparing for a test or the competency evaluationVideo icons indicate skills for which video is provided on the free Evolve companion website or in Mosby s Nursing Assistant Video Skills 40 sold separatelySummary boxes highlight key aspects of patient care including safety and comfort longterm care home care personal pride the needs of children and older persons cultural considerations communication guidelines delegated tasks teamwork and time managementFocus on PRIDE boxes highlight personal and professional responsibility rights and respect delegation and teamwork and ethics and laws to help you promote pride in the person the family and yourselfThe Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review corresponds to chapters in the text and encourages learning with a wide variety of exercises It also includes over 100 checklists one for every procedure in the textbook The Competency Evaluation Review includes a content review skills evaluation review and two practice exams to prepare students for their certification exam Sold separatelyPromoting Safety and Comfort boxes detail measures and cautions for providing safe effective patient careFocus on LongTerm Care and Focus on Home Care boxes highlight information vital to providing competent care in these settingsFocus on Children and Focus on Older Person boxes provide agespecific information about the special needs considerations and circumstances of children and older personsCaring About Culture boxes help you learn about the beliefs and customs of other cultures so you can provide appropriate careFocus on Communication boxes provide guidelines for what to say and ask when communicating with residents visitors and the nursing teamTeamwork and Time Management boxes cite ways you can efficiently work with and help nursing team membersDelegation Guidelines identify your specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks. 29. . Copyright © 2014 by Mosby, an imprint of Elsevier Inc.. Cystic Fibrosis. Autosomal. recessive, multisystem disease with altered function in exocrine glands of . . Physics in Biology and Medicine, Fourth Edition,.  covers topics in physics as they apply to the life sciences, specifically medicine, physiology, nursing and other applied health fields. This is a concise introductory paperback that provides practical techniques for applying knowledge of physics to the study of living systems and presents material in a straightforward manner requiring very little background in physics or biology. Applicable courses are Biophysics and Applied Physics.. \"With step-by-step instructions for over 100 nursing assistant procedures, Mosby\'s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition makes it easy to master the skills you need to succeed as a nursing assistant. Known for its visual approach and comprehensive, easy-to-read coverage, this market-leading text emphasizes the importance of the patient or resident as a person, communication, safety, comfort, effective delegation, and teamwork and time management. This edition provides expanded content on the person\'s rights and pressure ulcers. The updated companion CD includes three new procedures, an updated audio glossary, and more. Written by respected educator Sheila Sorrentino and expert co-author Leighann Remmert, Mosby\'s Textbook for Nursing Assistants makes nurse assisting easy to learn.Complete coverage includes the knowledge and skills needed by the nursing assistant.A clear, readable writing style is supplemented with hundreds of full-color photographs and illustrations.Over 100 procedures are divided into pre-procedure, procedure, and post-procedure sections for easier learning.Skills on the NNAAP(R) exam are highlighted throughout and have been updated to match the 2012 test plan.
Delegation Guidelines
identify your specific responsibilities in accepting commonly delegated tasks.Teamwork and Time Management boxes indicate ways you can efficiently work with and help nursing team members.
Promoting Safety and Comfort
boxes detail measures and cautions for providing safe, effective patient care.
Caring About Culture
boxes help you learn about the beliefs and customs of other cultures so you can provide appropriate care.
Focus on Children and Older Persons
boxes provide age-specific information about the special needs, considerations, and circumstances of children and older persons.Focus on Long-Term Care and Home Care boxes highlight information vital to providing competent care in these settings.
Focus on Communication
boxes provide guidelines for what to say and ask when communicating with residents, visitors, and the nursing team.Key abbreviations are included at the beginning of each chapter, with a comprehensive glossary at the back of the book.Key terms introduce chapter content with the important words and phrases.
Chapter Review Questions
are useful in guiding your study, reviewing what you have learned, and studying for a test or the competency evaluation.
CD icons
indicate skills included on the companion CD.Video clip icons indicate skills for which video clips are included on the free Evolve companion website.Video icons indicate skills included in the Mosby\'s Nursing Assistant Video Skills 3.0 DVDs (sold separately).The Workbook and Competency Evaluation Review corresponds to chapters in the text and encourages learning with a wide variety of exercises and activities that challenge you to remember what you\'ve learned. It also includes over 100 checklists, one for each procedure in the textbook. The Competency Evaluation Review includes content review, skills evaluation review, and two practice exams. Sold separately.NEW!
The Person\'s Rights
and Pressure Ulcers chapters provides expanded information on these key areas.NEW
Focus on PRIDE
boxes highlight personal and professional responsibility, rights and respect, independence and social interaction, delegation and teamwork, and ethics and laws to help you promote pride in the person, family, and yourself.Two laminated, pocket-sized cards include information on normal vital signs, common measurement conversions, positioning, the 24-hour clock, and abdominal and lateral regions.Updated companion CD contains interactive procedures, including three new procedures, learning exercises, an updated audio glossary, and a new Spanish audio glossary with phrases and terms. An updated A&P review, Body Spectrum, is available on the CD and on the Evolve companion website.\" Gain the knowledge and skills you need to give medication with this new easy-to-read textbook. Thorough and complete, this text covers all of the basic principles and techniques of medication administration. It also provides an overview of common drugs, their effects and side effects, and key safety issues that include medication interactions, common errors, over-the-counter medications, and medication use in older adults.Clear, easy-to-read writing style makes it easy to understand what you\'ve read.Attractive, full-color presentation keeps your interest.Hundreds of full-color drawings and photos illustrate key techniques and concepts.Focus on Communication boxes show you how to clearly communicate with patients and residents and avoid comments that might make them uncomfortable.Focus on Older Persons boxes prepare you to address the special needs, considerations, and circumstances of older patients.Promoting Safety and Comfort boxes explain measures and cautions you can use to improve patient safety and comfort.Procedures are divided into manageable segments with step-by-step instructions to follow for each skill.Delegation Guidelines prepare you for the responsibilities of specific delegated tasks.Arithmetic Review in the Appendix reviews the basic math skills you need for calculating and checking medication dosages.UNIQUE! Key Abbreviations and Acronyms at the beginning of each chapter familiarize you with commonly used abbreviations.Key Terms defined at the beginning of each chapter prepare you to better understand chapter content.Chapter Review Questions at the end of each chapter help you evaluate your learning.Workbook available separately contains a wide variety of exercises and activities to enhance and evaluate your learning. Now in its Second Edition, this textbook prepares students to work as nursing assistants in long-term care, acute care, and home health care settings, and provides a firm foundation for advancement to an LPN and ultimately an RN role. The book is written in a direct, conversational writing style with an emphasis on professionalism and humanism. This edition is significantly updated and has new photographs and illustrations. A front-of-book CD-ROM includes an audio glossary. An audiobook version of the entire text in MP3 format is available as a separate purchase. A student-edition DVD, containing selected procedures from Lippincott\'s Video Series for Nursing Assistants, is also available as a separate purchase. This comprehensive full-color student workbook contains worksheets for each chapter of Lippincott\'s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, Second Edition. The worksheets are fully integrated with the text and offer exercises, questions, and learning activities for students. Get the most out of Sorrentino\'s Mosby\'s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 8th Edition, and prepare for your certification exam! This chapter-by-chapter workbook and competency evaluation review reinforces your understanding of textbook content with numerous exercises and activities. It includes over 100 checklists -- one for every procedure in the text. The competency evaluation review helps you prepare for the certification exam with content review, skills evaluation review, and practice exams.Comprehensive coverage corresponds chapter-by-chapter to the textbook.A wide variety of exercises enhances learning and keeps you interested.Over 100 procedure checklists allow step-by-step review of each procedure and for instructor and/or self-evaluation.Optional learning exercises are provided for longer programs and/or higher-level students.Independent learning activities in every chapter allow additional review and practice.Competency evaluation review section includes content review and review questions for all key topics as well as two practice exams that help to prepare you for the written certification exam the skills evaluation review helps you practice the procedures you may be required to perform for certification. This comprehensive workbook is keyed to the text and provides numerous exercises and questions to help students reinforce learning. Procedure checklists are included as well as questions for the Mosby\'s Nurse Assisting Video Series. New to this edition is a Competency Review section that will help students prepare for the certification exam. This text builds on the basic concepts and skills that the nursing assistant has already mastered. Recognizing that the students using this text have already completed their basic nursing assisting training and may have already been working in the profession, this text does not repeat information that is part of the basic nursing assistant training. Rather, this textbook is meant to be used in conjunction with, or as a follow-up to, a basic nursing assistant textbook, such as Lippincott\'s Textbook for Nursing Assistants. This comprehensive chapter-by-chapter companion to the textbook includes a wide variety of exercises to enhance learning and hold students\' interest. Checklists for the textbook procedures allow for instructor or self-evaluation. Additional Learning Activities provide exercises that go beyond the textbook. New to this edition is a Competency Evaluation Review. Includes a variety of exercises to enhance learning. Checklists for the textbook procedures allow for instructor or self-evaluation.New to this edition is a Competency Evaluation Review section that will help students prepare for the certification exam. Instantly access the latest information on evaluating fetal status in a practical, portable format perfect for use in the clinical environment! Using an evidence-based approach, Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring and Assessment provides detailed guidance on standardized interpretation and management, incorporating patient safety concepts throughout. As the first multidisciplinary text on fetal monitoring, this resource is geared towards the busy clinician.Portable and practical information for evaluating intrapartum and antepartum fetal statusSingle source of information for care designed specifically for use in the clinical environmentConsistent, two-color outline format includes the description, characteristics, etiology, clinical significance, and intervention for each situation or conditionDetailed review of the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) standardized terminologyA new approach to fetal assessment based on the oxygen pathway and fetal response to hypoxemiaCurrent information on excessive uterine activity and fetal acidemia, with suggestions for oxytocin managementStandardized interpretation and management of fetal heart rate response using an evidence-based algorithmPatient safety and risk management strategies with case study illustrationPractical information on documentation in electronic fetal monitoring, including legal issuesInformation on neonatal encephalopathy and intrapartum eventsDeposition excerpts from actual malpractice cases related to EFMAdjunct fetal assessment using analysis of the fetal ST segment Mosby\'s Pocket Guide to Pediatric Assessment offers a concise but comprehensive approach to health assessment for the pediatric client. It begins with a general description of history taking and includes approaches to children at various ages, nutritional assessment, and measurement and evaluation of vital signs. Emphasis is on how to information, including how and what to assess in each body system. Psychosocial, anatomical, and physiological development variations are incorporated as appropriate, as well as normal and abnormal findings. Given the extensive information provided, this reference is ideal for a broad range of nurses and students dealing with pediatric patients.Concise, portable size makes this book very handy for use in clinical settings.Presents content in an outline format for clinical practicality.Includes both psychosocial and physical aspects of assessment within a developmental framework.Body system organization facilitates retrieval of information.Highlighted clinical alerts call attention to potentially serious findings.Up-to-date growth charts are provided for birth through age 18.Extensively revised to reflect trends in pediatric nursing, up-to-date techniques, and current literature.A new chapter on assessment of mental health addresses growing areas of concern including school phobia, ADHD, depression, suicide, anxiety, and schizophrenia.New tables provide quick reference to common childhood symptoms (i.e., fever, diarrhea, vomiting).Updated coverage of immunizations (U.S. and Canada) includes information regarding relevance and normal timing of immunizations as well as most current published tables.Nursing diagnoses have been updated throughout. \"Make the connections between laboratory and diagnostic testing and the clinical care of your patients!The team that brings you the popular Davis\'s Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests With Nursing Implications now brings you the only text thatexplains the who, what, when, how, and why of laboratory and diagnostic testing and connects them to clinical presentations, nursing interventions, and nursing outcomes. Using both printed and interactive case studies, you\'ll see exactly how those connections work in the real-world of clinical practice.Click here for a sneak preview of the text!As a nursing instructor, the
Textbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Testing: Practical Application of Nursing Process at the Bedside
is one book that I would highly recommend be a required textbook for any nursing student. I appreciate that the textbook is distinctly formatted to present diagnostic and laboratory studies while also including case studies. The textbook walks students through understanding why a study is being performed, how it is done, and explains the clinical significance in relation to a given patient situation all while using the nursing process. Absolutely love it!- Cindy Middaugh, Instructor at El Paso Community College\" Portable and easy-to-use, Mosby\'s Guide to Nursing Diagnosis, 6th Edition is ideal for use in clinicals, in class, and at the bedside! This pocket-sized reference book is a condensed version Ackley\'s Nursing Diagnosis Handbook, 12th Edition that helps you diagnose and formulate care plans with confidence and ease. Using a quick-access format, it includes the 2018-20 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses based on more than 1,300 specific symptoms and a step-by-step guide to creating care plans, featuring desired outcomes, interventions, and patient teaching. Plus, alphabetic thumb tabs allow for quick and easy access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.UNIQUE! Includes care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis, including pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, safety, and client/family teaching and discharge planning interventions.Alphabetical thumb tabs provides your students with quick access to specific symptoms and nursing diagnoses.Pocketsize portability makes this book easy to carry and use in clinicals, in class, or at the bedside.Nursing Diagnoses Index on the inside front and back cover.NEW! UNIQUE! 2018-2020 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses complete with 16 new diagnoses.